It is especially cool to have met a moon-man, especially since nobody's gone back since the early 70s. I really wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. But then they stopped sending people anywhere but into orbit... I'm not going to do all the astronaut training crap just to get a chance to orbit the earth. Especially since the most dangerous parts, the takeoff and landing (Sitting on a giant bomb and pressing the red button! Whee!), are still there, but the interesting bits, like going where no one has gone before, are gone. That's just lame.

I think I'm not alone; I've noticed that a lot of science fiction has stopped being about outer space and started being about cyberspace...